After the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered to the Iranian atomic science institute to speed up uranium enrichment, Ali Akbar Salehi, director of Iran's atomic program and a vice president announced on Tuesday that his country had started working on advanced centrifuges at its Natanz facility.
"Iran has notified the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] that it has launched a plan to increase its uranium enrichment capacity," Salehi said Tuesday at a press conference.
"If conditions allow, maybe tomorrow night at Natanz, we can announce the opening of the center for the production of new centrifuges" for uranium enrichment, said Salehi added what they are doing does not violate the (2015 nuclear) agreement.
"We know the nuclear deal. After taking a 10-year suspension, we will overcome the deficiencies and will gradually turn the yellow cakes into UF6, we have necessary stocks for that."
France wants the nuclear deal to be continued
On the other hand, French Foreign Minister Jean- Yves Le Drian said, "This deal should continue," in a statement regarding some European companies have already started to wind down Iranian operations.
French Foreign Minister Jean- Yves Le Drian argued that despite the withdrawal of the United States from the nuclear agreement, the nuclear agreement is in practice, "European countries, China, Russia and Iran have been in negotiations for 12 years. There have always been crises. It protected us from Iran's threats of acquiring nuclear weapons."
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